The nature of forgetting from short-term memory

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (1):134-134 (2001)
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Memory and forgetting are inextricably intertwined. Any account of short-term memory (STM) should address the following question: If three, four, or five chunks are being held in STM, what happens after attention is diverted?

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